R.P. 92 pts.
Even better from bottle than from cask, and one of the finest wines of the vintage, this dense purple-colored 2002 reveals wonderfully sweet notes of charcoal, fresh mushrooms, smoke, earth, leather, cassis, and cedar. Full-bodied, highly extracted, broodingly backward, dense, and deep.
巴頓城堡紅葡萄酒在波爾多地區整體範圍內,應用赤霞珠品種的水平都算得上相當高,有一定熟成水平的成酒常呈深邃的寶石紅色,散發著黑莓、黑醋栗和黑櫻桃等成熟的黑果香氣,還夾雜著香料和雪鬆的氣息,單寧豐富且細膩,陳年潛力十分出色。